{"id":21829,"date":"2024-06-06T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21829"},"modified":"2024-06-07T08:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:10:39","slug":"2024-june-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21829","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 6
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy reported the following butterfly sightings from several areas, June 5:<\/p>\n

Mount Tolmie Park. \u00a01 Cabbage White<\/strong> at 10 am
\nPanama Flats 12 noon, \u00a0 3 Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and 1 Mourning Cloak
\n<\/strong>Blenkinsop Road \u00a01 pm 2 Cabbage Whites.
\n<\/strong>Outerbridge Park 2 pm 2 Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And she sends photographs of butterflies, dragon\/damselflies and a spider, also June 5.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cabbage White Pieris rapae\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Two Painted Ladies from Mount Tolmie:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Pacific Forktail\u00a0 Ischnura cervula\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"California Darner Rhionaeschna californica\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk\u00a0\u00a0 Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Goldenrod Crab Spider\u00a0 Misumena vatia\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Azzia Cooper writes:<\/p>\n

Today, June 6, at Viaduct Flats parking lot, there was a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, a Cabbage White<\/strong>, a Western Spring Azure<\/strong> and a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the corner of Koksilah Road and the Trans-Canada Highway, there were hundreds of lupins, but only one Silvery Blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At Cowichan Station, there were no white butterflies. There were four Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong> and one blue butterfly, not seen well enough for identification.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cedar Hairstreak\u00a0 Callophrys gryneus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Silvery Blue\u00a0 Glaucopsyche lygdamus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Unknown, possibly leaf-cutter bee (Hym.: Megachilidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 June 6 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy reported the following butterfly sightings from several areas, June 5: Mount Tolmie Park. \u00a01 Cabbage White at 10 am Panama Flats 12 noon, \u00a0 3 Cabbage Whites and 1 Mourning Cloak Blenkinsop Road \u00a01 pm 2 Cabbage Whites. Outerbridge Park 2 pm 2 Cabbage Whites and 1 Pale Tiger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21833,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions\/21833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}